The SGAE calls for the promoter in Spain of Taylor Swift’s live shows for default copyright | Culture | EUROtoday

The General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) has sued the Bilbao Court of Bilbao to the promoter Last Tour for not having paid the quantities derived from the copyright from 2022 to 2024: greater than 4 million euros, of which half correspond to the 2 live shows of Taylor Swift in Madrid. Last Tour is liable for different musical occasions such because the Bilbao BBK Live, Azkena Rock and Kalorama festivals in Madrid the place they’ve performed names akin to Sting, Leiva, Juan Luis Guerra or Rigoberta Bandini, amongst others, as confirmed to the EFE Sources of the SGAE, liable for accumulating these revenue within the identify of these affected by the default.

As defined by society, the connection with Last Tour is “complicated for years”, with two earlier calls for, the final in 2019, which ended up fixing in favor of the authors and compelled the promoter to pay the quantities owed, however “with the corresponding delay in the collection” for these affected. The present battle started in 2022, when the promoter completed paying and complying with the final sentence towards him. Then “a very prolonged silence began again,” they denounce from the collective administration entity, which started to say what was owed, they are saying, “in good tone.”

The set off for this new demand was the discover by the BMI collective administration entity, the biggest music rights group within the United States, that Spain was the one nation that had not but obtained the quantities of Swift for its final tour: about two million euros. After a number of claims, a gathering was held between the events in October wherein it was positioned on the desk “a very complicated proposal”, SGAE sources point out, with a doable arbitration earlier than the Intellectual Property Commission (CPI). But an settlement was not reached to liquidate the whole lot due and the demand was produced.

In an announcement issued Thursday, Last Tour explains that “he does not oppose the copyright, or the payment of equitable remuneration corresponding to the rights holders, but rejects the practices of the management entity.” The promoter emphasizes “the abusive nature of the SGAE rate, which is especially evident in the case of Taylor Swift concerts in Madrid, to which SGAE intends to apply a rate of 8.5%, while the rate that is applied in the artist’s country of origin is limited to 1.15%.” It additionally emphasizes that “the British rate, for example, is 4.2%, that of Germany between 5.75%and 8%, which is in any case lower than the SGAE rate, in Belgium an escalation applies that in cases as in the concert that concerns us would be limited to 3%.

The promoter also ensures that “the figure in which SGAE estimates the claim is not correct. Last Tour has provided SGAE with the official certificates issued by the ticketera that was in charge of the sale of tickets of the Taylor Swift concerts and which was designated by the artist herself. SGAE has ignored those figures, which are the real ones, and that have been confirmed by an entity Absolutely independent of Last Tour, and has issued invoices for these concerts that practically double the figure that would correspond to. ”

The SGAE replicates the promoter arguing that “this dissension does not occur in any country. Each management entity of each country has its rate and the promoters of all countries have paid without grinding, even in places with rates superior to that of the SGAE.” And keep in mind that in mental property there’s a precept: “The law that governs is that of the country, not of the author’s origin, but that the fact that generates the right is produced.”

The Eras Tour Taylor Swift, which handed by Madrid on May 29 and 30, turned probably the most profitable tour in historical past, elevating greater than 1.9 billion euros, 13 of which left Spain.